1. If you could learn any three skills (ie if you could be programmed with them a la The Matrix), what would you choose ( Read more... )

My parents screwed up my college loan so I have to go get a second job and make payments in order to stay here. I'm just slightly bitter. I was quite sure they wer not capable of screwing up my life anymore but the managed to find a way. They wonder why my sister doesn't want to have anything to do with them anymore. That is mostly because she ( Read more... )

Well practice WAS going splendidly. I made it through the 30min "light jog" and the 6:30am lifting followed by another "light jog". I made it through circuit training and drills and then I pulled my hamstring. Since I was in the thrid grade every time I try to play something gets in my way. Maybe I'm not supposed to play soccer. The really funny ( Read more... )

So I'm back. I have two weeks of preseason for soccer. IT began tonight with a 30min cross country "jog" which seemed much more like a 30min hell, yet to my astonishment I made it. We have practice again at 6:30am but only 4 hours of practice a day which is nothing compared to high school. Also, I thought I was coming back only to be kicked off the ( Read more... )

I'm heading back to school one week from Saturday. I'm so glad it is time to go back. Summer is definitely not all it is cracked up to be ( Read more... )

I love tea. It makes me feel better when I'm sick it makes me happy on a boring day. It's refreshing and wonderful. I made sun tea today. The art of making sun tea consists entirely in the placement of the vessel in the direct sun rather than say in a dark cupboard to brew. I tried squishing fresh blueberries into my tea for a different flavor but ( Read more... )

Cycling or gym ( Read more... )

I am plotting an adventure ( Read more... )

So I went for a walk this morning and while I was taking in the hills and the sleeping cows and the stream trickling through the valley suddenly a huge shaggy brown creature that I swear growled at me under its breath. I thought I might be going nuts, but it was definitely a lion. I don't know why a lion would be in the midwest but he was. Right ( Read more... )

I returned to my house at 3:30am yesterday and was at my grandfather's funeral at 10am. It was such a long day ( Read more... )